The Hemisphere: A Rainy Day

A few devout citizens hurried uneasily into the great cathedral and
prayed. Others just looked up to the sky and grinned. Children pulled
off shoes and pattered gaily in tiny puddles along bustling Jiron
Union. Newspapers dusted off their big wooden headline type. Rain had
come to Lima. It was only .08 inch (in 90 minutes) but it was the first
rainfall in Peru's capital in five years, and the heaviest since a
.12-inch shower in 1929.